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...grace which made him adored of the great ladies of his day and keeps him popular since. "Pinkie" went-to Sir Joseph Duveen. "Pinkie," who was none other than Miss Mary Moulton Barrett, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's aunt, painted as a young girl coquettishly sauntering over a barren moor before a thunderstorm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Pinkie | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

They call it "target" golf and they played it one day last week over the rolling course at Moor Park, England. Five score of the world's ablest professional linksmen were on hand to give it a trial, coveting ?1,000 of prize money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Target Golf | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...this season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Poor Petrushka, superbly done by Adolf Bolm, danced and danced, wriggled and writhed, beat his breast, accomplished nothing, became in the end just the pitiful ghost of the brave puppet he was. Florence Rudolph was the ballerina; Giuseppe Bonfiglio, the dashing Moor who won her; Serge Sondeikine, the author of the dazzling bright sets; Stravinsky, the genius in back of it all, Stravinsky at his best-sure, reckless, rhythmical, vivid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Petrushka | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

There are arguments worth presenting against any considerable increase in our present seating capacity, either by enlarging our present Stadium or building a new one, but certainly none of them appear in the CRIMSON editorial. Fred W. Moor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major Moore's Letter | 12/8/1925 | See Source »

British Professional. Round the course at Moor Park, England, strode the finalists in a British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: Oct. 5, 1925 | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

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